In a white paper presented to transportation officials this week, forensic accountant Tiffany Couch slammed what she calls a “severe lack of accountability, transparency, and oversight” in managing the $10 billion* Columbia River Crossing Light Rail (CRC) project. Couch, owner of Vancouver-based Acuity Group, met Thursday with the area’s political ...
The Bonneville Power Administration formally rejected a citizen-proposed route intended to place a 70-mile voltage power line as far away from populated areas of Clark County as possible. This is the latest chapter in the debate over where BPA should build a new 500-kilovolt transmission line between Castle Rock in ...
Should Congress thwart Internet piracy even if it results in censorship?
Lawmakers in Washington D.C. are facing this question as they consider two bills intended to clamp down on the piracy of copyrighted material...
It’s fitting that the Vancouver City Council held an informal town hall meeting at Clark College at Columbia Tech Center Tuesday, because the event looked more like class registration day than an official City Council meeting. But that was the goal, as the council – unable to meet at its ...
Oregon Republican Party Chairman and potential 2014 Oregon gubernatorial candidate Allen Alley used to support the $10 billion* Columbia River Crossing Light Rail project (CRC) – that is until he started looking at the details. Now he describes the CRC as the ultimate “talking frog” – kind of cool, but ...
On a frigid morning at the Vancouver Landing amphitheater there was crisp criticism of the current Columbia River Crossing Light project (CRC) from representatives of the Smarter Bridge Committee, a group that rejects the current CRC project as designed. Estimated to cost up to $10 billion* (including debt service), the ...
The Smarter Bridge Committee is holding an informational event at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Vancouver Landing. The event will focus on a bridge that is right size, right price, right place. The 24-member committee has been meeting for several months, and member Sharon Nasset said members include elected officials. ...
After some hemming and hawing, the C-Tran board approved a $330,000 contract Tuesday night to hire engineering firm BergerABAM to assist in the preparation of a vote on high capacity transit financing for Fall 2012...
Maintaining current levels of emergency medical services in Clark County will require a much more efficient, system-wide way of doing business. That was the message Vancouver Fire Chief Joe Molina presented to the Vancouver City Council during a workshop Monday concerning a pending agreement between Emergency Medical Service (EMS) District ...
Post updated Jan. 9, 2012 An angry email exchange last week between Vancouver City Council member Jeanne Stewart and Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt has revealed simmering tensions on the council heading into key discussions about committee assignments. This is the time of year that the City Council decides which of ...
While Washington State is facing its worst financial crisis in decades, transportation funding has remained relatively robust. Over the next eight years, though, existing transportation budgets will face a $1 billion shortfall, and new infrastructure could require between $10 billion and $30 billion in additional revenue. This was the mixed ...
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